How to Merge Presentations in PowerPoint?

Students, corporate employees, customer support agents and sales agents use presentations on daily basis. Sometimes they have to use contents of one presentation in other presentations.

Can you merge presentations in PowerPoint? The answer is yes, and there are different ways to combine slides in different presentations.

Merging presentations in PowerPoint allows users to copy slides from one presentation and then using those slides in other presentation. You can copy one slide or multiple slides from one PowerPoint to another. Using this approach allows supporting your claims and getting more work done with less effort.

Merge Presentations in PowerPoint

You can combine presentations or slides from different presentations in several ways. Some users prefer professional methods while students usually opt for the easier ways. In this guide, we are going to discuss different popular ways to combine PowerPoint presentations.

Method 1: Reuse PowerPoint Slides

This method allows reusing slides from a previous presentation in a new presentation. This method is easy and straightforward. Here is how to merge presentations in PowerPoint by reusing slides.

1.      Open Target PowerPoint Presentation

Open a new presentation or existing one where you want to add slides from source file. Select a slide after which you want to add slides from other presentation.

2.      Add New Slide

Go to Home >> New Slides >> Click on the Dropdown menu >> Reuse Slides. A new pane on the right side of the screen will appear.

3.      Browse File

From the new pane on the right, click on the browse button and choose the source presentation from where you want to add slides. This will open all slides from the source presentation in the right pane.

4.      Reuse Slides from the Source

From the right pane, select the slides that you want to add and selected slides will be added to the target presentation. Check the “Keep source formatting” option to reuse the slides in the original format.

5.      Adjust Slides in Target Presentation

You have the slides from source presentation in your target presentation. Easily move, and rearrange the slides in the final presentation. This is how you can combine slides from different presentations.

Method 2: Copy and Paste Slides

Copy-paste is the easiest way to add data from one source to target. Do you know how to copy one image from one folder to another in your computer? Follow the same process for PowerPoint to copy one slide from source presentation to target presentation.

1. Open both presentations on your computer and navigate to the source presentation.
2. Select one or more slides, copy slides from the source, and navigate to the target presentation.
3. In the target presentation, select the slide after which you want to add new slides and paste the slides.
4. Your target presentation now has the slides from the source presentation, and you can edit or adjust the slides.

You can copy and paste slide(s) with right click of the mouse of use keys CTRL+C (copy) and CTRL+V (paste) to marge slides from one presentation to another.

Method 3: Drag and Drop Slides

Here is the easiest method to merge slides from one presentation to another. All you have to do is open both slides side by side and drag the slide from one presentation to another, and you are done. Drag slides from presentation-1 to presentation-2 or vice versa.

Method 4: Insert Object to Merge Two Presentations

The above methods are better choices when you need to merge slides from one presentation to another. What if you want to add an entire presentation file to another PowerPoint presentation?

To insert a presentation as an object, we will use the insert tab from the top menu. Here is how to combine two presentations.

Step 1: Open the destination presentation where you want to add another presentation.

2nd Step: Go to Insert Tab and then navigate to the Object option

Step 3: From the new window, select “Create from the File” and add your source presentation

Step 4: the selected slide will merge the source presentation as an object that you can adjust and edit as per your requirements.

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Combine Presentations in PowerPoint- Final Verdict

You can choose any of the given methods to merge presentations in PowerPoint. Go through our detailed guide to learn about step by step process. Instead of wasting time and resources on making similar slides, use the power of ChatGPT for PowerPoint add-in and enjoy seamless presentation making.